You could just subscribe to the dev mailing list and send the developers an email, they might patch it themselves.
technically you're obligated to do that by the licencse of the code. (at least GPL, not BSD though)
Well, I'm not using the code yet, when and if I do, then I will.
The fixes are merely only hacks, in C/C++ things are little more difficult because of linker, library, and kernal differences. So sometimes it's like a hack that changes the name of a function.